Wingnuttery category archive
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
The Roanoke Times carries a story about how anti-vaxxers propagate propaganda manufactured out the whole cloth via the internet and “social” media.
Trying to excerpt or summarize it will not do it justice. Just follow the link.
Great Moments in Gunnuttery 0
One more time, Boebert is the new Gohmert.
Facebook Frolics, Rule of Lawless Dept. 0
Yet another Florida Woman.
Maskless Marauders 0
David dissects a marauding. (The action begins at about the minute and a half mark, after a short discussion about subscriptions and pledges.)
Honest to Betsy, you couldn’t make this stuff up.
We are a society of stupid.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
It seems that the new right-wing “social” media app, Parler (no, I won’t link to it), which aspires as far as I can tell to be a wingnut Twitter, has got itself some unexpected fans.
All the News that Fits 0
Thom and his guest discuss right-wing media and messaging machine and take a stab at taxonomy of right-wing I guess you could call them flavors.
It’s All about the Algorithm 0
Ed from Gin and Tacos follows the tale of a Facebook Frolicker’s descent into the wingnut rabid hole.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
What is it about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that’s causing such a right-wing freakout so?
Facebook Frolics 0
Excuse me, would you like a cup of Facebookly-brewed tea?
Aside:
We are having municipal elections this year, and the news coverage is rather lacking. My local rag is a shadow of its former self (like many local rags), and I refuse to waste my time with TV what-passes-for-news.
A friend sent a notice of a local candidates forum (the best way to get to know the candidates in my city), so I attended and left with some disorganized first impressions and a list of candidates.
Then I went looking for information on the candidates. Some of them had campaign websites–rudimentary, but still websites. For many of them, though, all I could find was Facebook pages for their campaigns and sometimes not even that–just Facebook pages–forcing me to visit Facebook and soil my browser cache with the Zuckerborg’s tracking cookies (which I promptly deleted as soon as I was done).
It was most frustrating.
